The bill for 3,000 gallons of water is roughly half of the bill for 4,000 gallons.
A worker repairs a sewer line in 2016. The average Houston water bill will jump about 15 percent in April, partly to pay for upgrades to sewer lines that regularly spill into residents' yards and homes.Houston residents will see their water bills increase by about 15 percent this month.
The jump, about $11 for the average single family customer, stems from a higher-than-usual annual adjustment, plus the latest in aThe city automatically adjusts the rates every year for inflation and population growth. This year, those figures were 8.2 percent and 1 percent, respectively, totaling 9.2 percent. Those increases usually were around 4 percent in prior years.
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